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New Orleans Decr 30. 1841

My Dear Wife, I take up my pen to write you a few lines, informing you that I am in good health, which is all the good news I can send you, I have not received? abbreviation any letter from you, since I arrived here, but hope I may before I leave,- It is one week today since we landed here, and our cargo still lies on the unclear, the weather is so very bad that the unclear cannot unclear it, this is now, the fifth day that it has rained here constantly, so that but little outdoors business can be done, Freights are very scarce for St. Louis & the weather so bad, that I expect to leave in the course of 2 or 3 days with but little, Steamboating at this time looks rather gloomy, and I feel equally as much so, I feel very homesick at this time, more than I ever did before, I would give almost any thing I have to see you, if I could be placed home for a little while, it would afford me much pleasure, But as it is impossible to realize such a gratification at present, I must forbear a little while longer,-